Fig. 9.

Chronic exposure to OTA induced the expression and loading of annexin A2. A-C Immunoblot analysis of the expression of annexin A2 in OTA-exposed normal kidney cells (A), from derived sEVs (B) and from conditioned media (C). (D-F) Immunoblotting of annexin A2 in urinary sEVs (D), urine (E), and kidney tissue of OTA-exposed rats (F). (G) Immunohistochemical analysis representing the expression of annexin A2 in the OTA-exposed kidney section. Brown colour represents the expression of annexin A2. (H) The expression of annexin A2 in folic acid-exposed urinary sEVs. For sEVs-associated annexin A2, TSG-101 expression was used for normalization and annexin A2 expression in cells, tissue or urinary annexin A2, β-actin expression was used for normalization. Numbers (1–3) indicate each animal in a given group. Ctrl = vehicle-exposed NRK52E cells, LD = Low Dose (OTA-250 nM), HD = High Dose (OTA-500 nM), CM = conditioned Media, CM-sEVs = conditioned media-derived sEVs, V-ctrl or VC = vehicle-exposed rats, OTA = OTA-exposed rats, V-ctrl (sEVs) = urinary sEVs of vehicle-exposed rats, FA (sEVs) = urinary sEVs of folic acid-exposed rats, and N-ctrl = negative control